Example sentences of "is do [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick is to do it little and often — notice what they do in the fast food chains , ’ Davies says . |
| 2 | He adds : ‘ My advice is to do it now . |
| 3 | What I do n't want is to do it so seldom that he gets angry ; because he does if he has to wait too long . |
| 4 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 5 | The skilful presenter is doing it effortlessly . |
| 6 | ‘ Atkinson is best running at them and nobody is doing it better . ’ |
| 7 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 8 | THE CRANBERRIES precede the New Year release of their ‘ Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Ca n't We ’ LP with shows at The Royal Albert Hall supporting The House Of Love on November 20 , and alongside Drop Nineteens at Reading |
| 9 | No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness . |
| 10 | When listening to records , or to a band at a gig , even if you are checking out what the bass player is doing you still hear the whole thing . |
| 11 | The question is does it actually happen ? |